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Libya’s internationally recognized government is urging fellow Arab countries to arm its military so it can face the expanding Islamic State affiliate in the country.

Chris Buckler reports from Kos.

She was being treated in a hospital accompanied by three family members. One was a man with a fractured leg; the other was a mother, with 1-year-old son, who needed dialysis.

Survivors of the capsizing and sinking of a fishing boat crowded with migrants are brought aboard Irish and Italian Navy life-boats to the Dignity I MSF search and rescue vessel which responded to the emergency in the Mediterranean sea off Libya, Wednesday, August 5, 2015.

Hopes pale of discovering extra survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck through which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships have been referred to as to assistance from extra migrant boats in the identical space of the Mediterranean.

It is feared up to 200 migrants may have drowned after an overcrowded boat they were on capsized in the Mediterranean.

More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned in the latest Mediterranean boat tragedy after rescuers saved over 370 people from a capsized boat thought to be carrying 600, the Italian coast guard indicated on Thursday. Arab migrants, on the other hand, were mostly beaten...

ROME (AP) – Survivors of a migrant boat that capsized off Libya as rescuers approached told investigators that smugglers armed with knives forced people to stay in the trawler’s hold, increasing fears that more than 200 had been trapped inside and drowned, officials...

This comes at a time when many European countries are struggling to decide what to do about increases in migrants seeking asylum from risky, unstable conditions in places like Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. The risks are heightened by the tactics of the smugglers, who charge...

Survivors from a boat that capsized off the coast of Libya, in which some 200 migrants were feared drowned, were being brought to Sicily on Thursday, as tales emerged of the “horrific” moment the boat overturned.

A boat packed with up to 700 African migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Wednesday (Thursday NZ Time) and many are feared dead, officials and aid agencies said.

A capsized boat killed at least 25 migrants Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea.

More than 2,000 migrants are said to have died this year in trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe.

The video seems to point out guards teasing and beating Saadi Gaddafi, who was extradited to Libya by Niger final yr. He has been held since then in a Tripoli jail dealing with expenses over the killing of a soccer participant when he headed the Libyan Football Federation, in...

Four teachers, two of whom were released later, were held captive by the ISIS in Libya on Friday.